Episode #381: Lyndon Johnson #9: Making the Presidency His Own: The Great Society and the Tonkin Gulf (1964)

Episode #381: Lyndon Johnson #9: Making the Presidency His Own: The Great Society and the Tonkin Gulf (1964)

Lyndon Johnson #9: Making the Presidency His Own: The Great Society and the Tonkin Gulf (1964); Topics covered include: War on Poverty, Economic Opportunity Act (and impact on poverty in the U.S.), formalizes the Great Society program, instability in South Vietnam, agrees to increase number of military advisers, conflict between the U.S. Navy and the North Vietnamese in the Tonkin Gulf (some of which was unclear to have actually occurred), Johnson orders a military response and seeks congressional support, and passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution providing broad authority for military operations in Southeast Asia to the Commander in Chief Key people include: John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Goodwin, Robert McNamara, Maxwell Taylor, John Herrick, Ulysses Sharp, Ernest Gruening, Wayne Morse, and James Stockdale For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #380: Lyndon Johnson #8: Let Us Continue (1963-1964)

Lyndon Johnson #8: Let Us Continue (1963-1964); Topics covered include: John Kennedy assassination, beginning of the Johnson administration, Johnson's staff, Warren Commission (and report), initial decision on Vietnam, announces War on Poverty, pushes for Kennedy's tax cut (approved after budget cuts added to the package) and civil rights bill (also approved after extensive filibuster is overcome by Johnson's maneuvering behind the scenes, with the report of Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen) Key people include: John Kennedy, Richard Goodwin, Bobby Kennedy, Walter Jenkins, Jack Valenti, Horace Busby, Bill Moyers, Earl Warren, John McCloy, Allen Dulles, Richard Russell, John Sherman Cooper, Hale Boggs, Gerald Ford, Ngo Dinh Diem, Walter Heller, John Maynard Keynes, Harry Byrd, Martin Luther King, Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and Everett Dirksen For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #379: Lyndon Johnson #7: "That God-awful Job" (1961-1963)

Lyndon Johnson #7: "That God-awful Job" (1961-1963); Topics covered include: Johnson as Vice President of the United States, difficulties with the Kennedy team and the Democrats on Capitol Hill, VP travels including trips to South Vietnam and Berlin in 1961 (including building of the Berlin Wall), Chair of the Space Council, Chair of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (CEEO), Johnson helps Kennedy evolve on civil rights, initial planning for the 1964 campaign including trip to Dallas, Texas, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the return to Washington, D.C. after the assassination Key people include: Bobby Kennedy, Mike Mansfield, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nikita Khrushchev, Eugene (Bull) Connor, George Wallace, John Connally, Nellie Connally, Jacqueline Kennedy, Ralph Yarborough, Rufus Youngblood, Ken O'Donnell, Sarah Hughes, and Lady Bird Johnson For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #378: Lyndon Johnson #6: The 1960 Election (1958-1960)

Lyndon Johnson #6: The 1960 Election (1958-1960); Topics covered include: 1958 midterm elections, 1960 presidential election, Johnson's strategy, John Kennedy wins the Democratic nomination, Johnson considers an offer for the vice presidential nomination and eventually accepts, the issue of Kennedy's Catholicism is prominent in the campaign, and the Kennedy/Johnson ticket wins the election Key people include: John Kennedy, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, Warren Harding, Sam Rayburn, Homer Thornberry, John Garner, Bobby Kennedy, John Adams, Richard Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Lady Bird Johnson, and Harry Byrd For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #377: Lyndon Johnson #5: Master of the Senate (1954-1958)

Lyndon Johnson #5: Master of the Senate (1954-1958); Topics covered include: 1954 midterm elections, becomes Majority Leader (youngest ever), consolidates power in his office, "The Treatment," suffers heart attack, recuperation period and life adjustments, 1956 election, Civil Rights Act of 1957 (and perspective), and the 1958 midterm election Key people include: Wayne Morse, Bobby Baker, Dwight Eisenhower, Stuart Symington, George Brown, Clinton Anderson, Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, Herbert Brownell, Richard Russell, William Rogers, Bayard Rustin, and Sam Rayburn For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/